Cushions Quotes - Page 3

• Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Hate, Love Is, Better Person

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Cold Mountain is hidden in white clouds It's peaceful to be cut off from the busy world I use dry grass for cushions in my mountain home My only light is the round moon My bed is the rock beside the green pool Tigers and deer are my companions I delight in this happy peaceful life Forever beyond the world of men

  Hanshan

  Home, Cutting, Men

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• The great thing about having been poor is how liberated it makes you if you eventually become rich. There's nothing like the knowledge that you don't need money to survive. That the money cushion you lie on every night doesn't have to be three feet thick, and you can still get to sleep.

  Bill Maher

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  "The Great Thing About Having Been Poor" by Bill Maher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Thorns, Harm, Strikes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.40

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• Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.

  Anthea Turner

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

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• There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mcdonalds, Dollars, Couches

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• President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

  Maureen Dowd

  Blow, Presidential, Pockets

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• There are only a few things investors can do to counteract risk: diversify adequately, hedge when appropriate, and invest with a margin of safety. It is a precisely because we do not and cannot know all the risks of an investment that we strive to invest at a discount. The bargain element helps to provide a cushion for when things go wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Safety, Risk, Investing

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• When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Cities, Forever, Useless

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Blessing, Suffering

  "The Satires".

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• What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the ‘I’m Acheron’s Squire’ part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hearing, Danger, Pins

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.41, Macmillan

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• This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

  Roseanne Barr

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

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• It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.

  Emma Stone

  Real, School, Preparation

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• I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Play, Maids

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• I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

  Sappho

  Water, Body, Flow

  Sappho (2007). “The Poetry of Sappho”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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• The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Depressing, Retirement, Real

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• I would like to say boxing cannot compared with war. We have gloves on, we have cushions, we have referees, we have judges, we have ambulances there, the intention not to kill, we don't have steel there, we don't have bullets, we don't kill momma, kill daddy, kill baby, our intention is a sport, and we're not there to kill, so boxing cannot be compared in no way with machineguns and bombs and everything that used.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Baby, War

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

  Evan Davis

  Effectiveness, Too Much, Wonder

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• Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Fall, Getting Back Up

  "All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir". Book by Brennan Manning and John Blase, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2011.

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• I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

  Lynne Truss

  People, Giving, Horror

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?

  John Wesley

  Order, Soul, Religion

  John Wesley (1871). “Wesley his own biographer, being illustrations of his character, labours, and achievements, from his own journals and letters [ed.] with an intr. by G.S. Rowe”, p.158

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• I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

  Quentin Crisp

  Boys, Class, Faces

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• To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle
  seat and peddle into hurricane wind for 8 hours at your max effort; there is your ENGAGED ZEN!

  Steve Ilg

  Teacher, Wind, Effort

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• Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Love Is, Secret

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• I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.

  Brice Marden

  Jobs, New York, Teaching

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